FAIL: Spiced Apple Bundt Cake

Spiced Apple Bundt Cake

Adapted from http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Apple-Bundt-Cake-102692, Bon Appétit  | December 1999

by Amanda Denton, Barre, VT

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

½ cup almond meal

3 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 pinch each of nutmeg, ground cloves, and ground ginger

4 large eggs, at room temperature

1 cup butter, melted

¼ cup milk

2 ½ cups sugar (maybe I only added 2 cups…)

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

4 medium apples, peeled and cut into 1/3” pieces

5 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Brown sugar

Butter

Apple slices

Sea salt honey caramel sauce or powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan. Whisk together the flour, almond meal, baking powder, salt, and spices in a medium bowl. Combine the eggs, sugar, melted butter, milk, and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Add the dry mixture to the liquid mixture and stir to combine.

Toss the apples pieces with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Fold the apples into the cake batter.

Mix some brown sugar with cold butter and sprinkle mixture onto the bottom of the Bundt pan. Arrange the apples slices on the bottom of the pan so that they overlap each other slightly. Pour cake batter into the pan and bake for roughly 1 hour. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Loosen cake and turn out onto rack. Cool for at least 45 minutes. Drizzle salted caramel sauce over the cake or dust the cake with powdered sugar. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.